{"id":1259,"date":"2013-07-11T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2013-07-11T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:40:38","slug":"things-i-learned-today-vmware-turtle-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/things-i-learned-today-vmware-turtle-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned today: VMware turtle edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a cluster of VMware turtles enjoying the California summer sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VMware is famous, at least amongst its employees and visitors to our main campus, for its turtle pond<\/a>. \u00a0What I didn’t know is that we currently have nine turtles in our little pond. \u00a0None of the turtles were (ahem) developed here at VMware. \u00a0They’re all acquisitions, starting in 2007 with Rosie. \u00a0Rosie was an unofficial addition to the pond, but VMware adopted her wholeheartedly. \u00a0She soon had more turtles join her. \u00a0We’ve even updated the pond to be more turtle-friendly, adding more rocks for them for sunbathing purposes, and more plants for swimming around and hiding in.<\/p>\n

We have, of course, named all of our turtles. \u00a0Rosie got her name from the restaurant from where we acquired her. \u00a0Other turtles have been named for their attributes, such as Houdini (who is a master of hiding himself away) and McQueen (who often escapes by scaling a wall). \u00a0Another turtle is Zilla, named after the\u00a0Bugzilla<\/a>\u00a0that our development teams use to track\u00a0bugs, issues, and feature requests for our products.<\/p>\n

Our newest addition to the turtle family was given to us by one of our customers. \u00a0His name is from his home city of Portland. \u00a0I’m beginning to wonder if we’ll need to add another pond if we find ourselves with too many turtles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VMware is famous, at least amongst its employees and visitors to our main campus, for its turtle pond. \u00a0What I didn’t know is that we currently have nine turtles in our little pond. \u00a0None of the turtles were (ahem) developed here at VMware. \u00a0They’re all acquisitions, starting in 2007 with Rosie. \u00a0Rosie was an unofficial … Continue reading Things I learned today: VMware turtle edition<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}